Showing posts with label MXR Blue Box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MXR Blue Box. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Track analysis, "ready to come home now"

A newer track, studio improv as usual.   Which, to people who aren't familiar with the process, is non-rehearsed, non-scripted passages, recorded one at a time (since I do not have six arms).  Either the track works or it doesn't - I accept flaws and move on, or I scrap the entire thing.

Composition:
- two clean tracks, Fender Mustang (very soft pan, left/right split) to Fender Hot Rod Deluxe.
- distorted/fuzz track, hard left: MXR Blue Box (2 octave down fuzz) into Boss GL-100 "Guitar Driver" rackmount preamp.  Digitech Timebender analog delay on the verge of self-oscilating for effect.    Adds a nice low-end splatter and crackle and ambience to fill out the scene.
- distorted warble, hard right: Devi Ever Soda Meiser cranked, into Boss GL-100 again.  Adds cracking transistor warble with an overdefined tape saturation-style low end.
- fuzz background, center pan.  Boss GL-100 "HM-2 setting" into Devi Ever Soda Meiser.  Adds just the right amount of texture to the process.

Mix together lightly, and there's an audio headache (literally) - the central genesis of an idea, under siege from everything else - the outside world, the pain, the passing of the moment.  Some of these things may be beautiful in their own right, but the integrated whole is one of dis-ease and moment-to-moment being.

ready to come home now by rfurtkamp